On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Henrik Nilsson <n...@cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote: > >> In any case, this is hardly the place to to discuss how to best >> teach Haskell or programming in general. > > Sure, I haven't seen any disagreement with that.
As interesting as this discussion is, I think this agreement is the perfect segway to take it off list. Debating the usefulness of String = [Char] does not seem to be productive here anyways. What would be helpful is if alternatives were offered, tested out, and shared among the teaching community. If this requires any changes to the language (other than what is being discussed now), please let us know. The Prelude is still going to export list functions whether they are used on [Char] or not. So we are still in the position of requiring qualified imports for Text functions or needing to change the Text package or something about the language to avoid conflicts with list functions. _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
